Reconnecting to My Power as a Mother Through the Mikveh
What I didn’t expect was how much fun it would be. Each time I dipped, and came up to speak my words, I smiled and laughed.
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The Profound Simplicity of Jewish Spirituality
The act of remembering ... is the heartbeat of Jewish spirituality.
Promise of a New Day: A Review of Alden Solovy's This Grateful Heart
I’m packing This Grateful Heart into my disaster-survival kit.
Removing “Kosher” from our Mikveh Terminology
It is revealing that quite regularly women tell me they prefer not to feel like a side of beef being kashered in her immersion process.
Faith Leaders Bring Life-Saving Water to Migrants in the Desert
Starting at sunrise beneath the brilliant waning moon, I ventured into the desert with 70 clergy and humanitarian aid facilitators. In each of them I saw a face of the Divine.
The Thread, One and Whole: A Review of Devon Spier’s "Heart Map and the Song of Our Ancestors"
“We are not merely connected like two ends of a thread,” the speaker says. “We are the thread./ One and whole.”
A Season to Engage our Grief through Creativity: The Three Weeks
Feeling our grief and pain, however hard it is to do, is what keeps us out of despair
Mah Tovu: Transforming Curses to Blessings in Parshat Balak
What does it look like to change curses into blessings? How might we become beacons of justice and compassion in these times?
A Rabbi Visits the Border and Shares What He Saw
The humanitarian crisis is often far worse than it is made out to be in most of the press.
The Shabbat Tent
The tent is a physical reminder for us to take time to be close to our loved ones and to ourselves.
